USA Today?s article about the ?Baltimore Experiment? reminds me of Joe Clark, and his leadership in New Jersey. How much more money needs to be wasted, and student lives ruined before the education establishment admits what needs to happed in schools? Judge Manning – here is the answer for the problems in high schools.
The article is right on target:
?Reformers tout dozens of ideas, all of which have their appeal: schools within schools, charter schools, magnet schools, arts-focused schools, high-tech schools, service-oriented schools, schools that train kids to be teachers, builders, entrepreneurs, hoteliers or chefs, and schools that have extended days, weeks or years.
Talent Development High School is none of these.
Yet it’s working, on a simple, common-sense principle: Find a dynamic principal with high expectations, give him what he needs, and let him hire the teachers he wants. Provide a rigorous curriculum and massive intervention for freshmen who read and do math at elementary school levels. And then get out of the way.?
